1Mr E PorterW. City Dr Sir
In the winter of 1833 & 1834 I had as your attorney sundry conversations with Col
Stone late PM[Postmaster] of Mobile respecting your account with him in those conversations & repeatedly assured him
that that the draft accepted (as always conditionally by you) in
his favor would depend for payt[payment] on the fact, that a balance should be found due from you, to him on the adjustment
of his account: after an unceasing effort on my part for you of several weeks. I could
not effect settlement with him. Although I am satisfied he was greatly your debtor,
independent of the draft referred to, and I left him satisfied in my own mind, that
he knew such to be the fact. He therefore could not be unprepared for its return.
This subject among other matters, was frequently mentioned, and in most positive
terms and it was distinctly mentioned in one of our last interviews, before I left
Mobile in the winter of 1834.
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[Cong?] &c[etc.]
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Letter to P. S. Loushbough
P. O. D.
12th June 1835
P. O. D.
12th June 1835
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15.000
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Copy of a Letter from Doct[Doctor] P. Bradley
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Proving that Stones Draft was accepted conditionally
1This document was included in the papers of the Committee on Post Offices and Postal
Roads in the 30th Congress, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member.
Handwritten Transcription, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,